Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.
New American Standard Bible
By this the
King James Version
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Holman Bible
This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.
Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.
International Standard Version
This is how God's children and the Devil's children are distinguished. No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.
A Conservative Version
By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.
American Standard Version
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Amplified
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are clearly identified: anyone who does not practice righteousness [who does not seek God’s will in thought, action, and purpose] is not of God, nor is the one who does not [unselfishly]
An Understandable Version
Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil can be recognized: All those who do not continue to do what is right do not belong to God. Also, the person who does not continue to love his brother [or sister does not belong to God].
Anderson New Testament
By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not work righteousness is not of God; neither is he that loves not his brother.
Bible in Basic English
In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.
Common New Testament
By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.
Daniel Mace New Testament
In this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: he that does not practise virtue, and fraternal benevolence, is not of God.
Darby Translation
In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
By this the children of God are discovered, and the children of the devil: whoever works not righteousness, is not of God, neither he who loves not his brother.
Godbey New Testament
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.
John Wesley New Testament
Hereby the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever practiseth not righteousness is not of God; neither he that loveth not his brother.
Julia Smith Translation
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother.
King James 2000
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.
Lexham Expanded Bible
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother.
Modern King James verseion
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And hereby are the sons of God known, and also the sons of the devil. All that work not righteousness, are not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.
Moffatt New Testament
Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.
Montgomery New Testament
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
NET Bible
By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness -- the one who does not love his fellow Christian -- is not of God.
New Heart English Bible
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who does not love his brother.
Noyes New Testament
In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil. Whoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.
Sawyer New Testament
By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother.
The Emphasized Bible
Herein, are, manifest, the children of God, and the children of the adversary: Whoever is not doing righteousness, is not of God, nor yet he that is not loving his brother.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.
Twentieth Century New Testament
By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil--No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love his Brother.
Webster
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Weymouth New Testament
By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.
Williams New Testament
This is the way to distinguish God's children from the devil's children. No one who fails to do right is God's child, and no one who fails to love his brother.
World English Bible
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
Worrell New Testament
In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the Devil: every one that does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that does not love his brother;
Worsley New Testament
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doth not practise righteousness, and he who loveth not his brother, is not of God:
Youngs Literal Translation
In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,
Themes
Children » Lambs of the fold » Of God
Children » Lambs of the fold » Of the devil
Children » The children of the lord
Life » Lessons of » Manifested
Love » Those that do not love others
Love to man » The wicked devoid of
Names » Of the wicked » Children of the devil
Righteousness » The wicked » Do not
Satan » Confess Christ » Children of
The Devil » The wicked » Are the children of
The fruit of righteousness » Those that do not do righteousness
Titles and names of saints » Children of God
Interlinear
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References
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Hastings
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 3:10
Images 1 John 3:10
Prayers for 1 John 3:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Children Of God
9 No one who is a child of God commits sin, for God's nature remains in his heart, and he cannot sin, because he is a child of God. 10 This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God. 11 For the message you have heard from the beginning is this: We must love one another.
Cross References
1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
3 John 1:11
Dear friend, do not follow bad examples, but good ones. The man who does right is a child of God; the man who does wrong has never seen God.
Matthew 13:38
The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked.
John 8:44
The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.
1 John 4:6
We are God's children. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not a child of God will not listen to us. In this way we can tell what is inspired by truth from what is inspired by error.
1 John 4:21
This is the command that we get from him, that whoever loves God must love his brother also.
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked.
John 8:47
Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."
Acts 13:10
and said, "You monster of underhandedness and cunning! You son of the devil! You enemy of all that is right! Will you never stop trying to make the Lord's straight paths crooked?
Romans 8:16-17
The Spirit itself testifies with our spirits that we are God's children,
Ephesians 5:1
So follow God's example, like his dear children,
1 John 2:9-10
Whoever says, "I am in the light," and yet hates his brother, is still in darkness.
1 John 2:29
If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.
1 John 3:7-8
Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.
1 John 3:14-15
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.
1 John 4:3-4
and any inspired utterance that does not acknowledge Jesus does not come from God; it is the inspiration of the Antichrist. You have heard that it was coming, and here it is already in the world.
1 John 5:2
This is how we can be sure that we love the children of God: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is under the power of the evil one.